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Why can’t someone take HR 2454 to the Supreme Court?

By: reddog53 (Diary)  |  June 28th, 2009 at 06:52 AM  | 

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Since the news yesterday that the House members voted on a bill that did not exist and could not be read in its entirety, why can’t someone or some group that is affected by the law bring suit in federal court to have the law struck down?

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  • Mr_Ed

    …you can’t take it to the Supreme Court until it’s actually law. That won’t happen if/until the Senate passes its on bill, a joint conference committee approves a compromise and both House and Senate approve the compromise. Then Obama gets to sign it. After all that, hopefully someone will challenge the law’s constitutionality.

    • djemi

      ..Get another chance to vote the right way then, the right way being NO. They can then claim a Kerry (flip flop) right.

    • bk

      So it’s not going to matter how we got to that point, not that the Supreme Court would want anything to do with internal House matters anyway.

      And as for people flipping votes, they’ll just buy off someone else who voted no the first time. Anything that makes it that far will be slightly watered down anyway, so for every person who got scared off after voting for the original, there’s someone else who can get “convinced” to vote for the “improved” version that came out of the compromise.

      • red4ever

        Usually, getting standing to challenge a law is difficult. There is no general taxpayer standing to challenge a law. In this case though, the oil companies and the coal miners would be out of business. So they suffer actual injury from this law. Yes, there is no “right” to a particular occupation, but there must be a way to show how they are actually harmed by whatever law does pass.